The Ugly Renaissance Picture Of Ugly Woman Background Images, HD Pictures and Wallpaper For 10 of the World's Ugliest Animals: So Homely They're Cute HowStuffWorks The Ugliest People HuffPost. Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period. Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa's smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess. Enter the world of the ugly Renaissance. Uncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period's best known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever expanding world of bigotry and hatred. The only question is: will you ever see the Renaissance in quite the same way again? EAN: 9780099579472 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bcher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 2014 Beilage: B format paperback Autoren: Lee, Alexander Themenberschrift: HISTORY Renaissance Keyword: history; art; rome; italy; renaissance; michelangelo; florence; donatello the renaissance; european; rise of corruption; art history; architecture; medieval; european history Fachschema: Kunstgeschichte~Italien~Renaissance Frhrenaissance~Englische Bcher Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte~Europa Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte Fachkategorie: Kunstgeschichte~Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte Imprint Titels: Arrow Books Lnge: 198 mm Breite: 128 mm Hhe: 45 mm Gewicht: 477 gr Produktform: Kartoniert